Create video thumbnails - ruby

thumb_service.rb

movie = FFMPEG::Movie.new(video_url)
duration = (movie.duration / 2).floor
movie.screenshot("#{thumb_url}.jpg",  seek_time: duration)

video-thumbnails.md

Create video thumbnails - ruby

Install ffmpeg on Ubuntu:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mc3man/trusty-media
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ffmpeg gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg

Install gem:

gem 'streamio-ffmpeg', '~> 1.0.0'

Thank you for the example